Technology Roadmap Purpose

A strategic plan that identifies key priority technologies/solutions to develop and implement in the CUSEC region that will enhance situational awareness and decision support between local, state, and federal stakeholders in the region.

It will be designed to inform a more detailed and comprehensive regional technology adoption strategy for CUSEC and member states over the long-term

It can serve as a building block for a national roadmap being developed by State emergency management agencies in partnershiop with FEMA and DHS S&T

Technology Drivers

Lifeline Construct

Requires New Processes to

Capture, Report, Analyze Data

New Normal Requires

Expanded Regional Focus

State Focus Requires

Management Capabilities

Mitigation Focus Requires New

Analytical Tools

A Key Driver

• New Normal – Increase in Frequency, Intensity and Cost of Catastrophic Events

• 2017: $300+ Billion

• 2018: $100+ Billion

FEMA KEY PILLARS OF ACTIVITY

FEMA 2018-2022 STRATEGIC PLAN

Strategic Goals

• Build a Culture of Preparedness/Build Resilience

• Ready the Nation for Catastrophic Events

FEMA Approach

1

Current State Not Supportable

2

Two tenets underlying strategy

•Drive down cost of risk

•Enhance state and local capabilities

3

“Federally Supported, State Managed, Locally Executed”

Urgent Need: Enhance State Capacity

States Are at the Center

State Managed

Challenge Facing StateEmergency Management

• “A primary outcome of the New Normal brings the realization that State and Local Emergency Management programs have limited resources to manage a sophisticated and complex system on which in now depends for oversight of preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation activities.”

Technology Roadmap

What We’ve Heard So Far

Engagement Process to

Identify Needs

Past Stakeholder Engagement:

• Surveys in spring and summer 2018

• In-person meetings May and November 2018

• Technology Enhancement Report December 2018

• Phone calls with state directors January-February 2019

• Ongoing engagement conducted in support of Shaken Fury 19

Planned Stakeholder Engagement:

• Observations made during the preparation for Shaken Fury 19, conduct of players and hotwash

• Shaken Fury 19 After-Action Report

• Future in-person meetings

Compiled List of Identified Regional Needs

Better shelter planning and coordination with the Red Cross

Develop a planning & operations working group to identify operational requirements at the state level

Better process to ensure adoption of technology once it is developed and full transition of the technology/tool

Wider adoption of the Regional Information Sharing Portal (RISP) and enhancement of Resource Clearinghouse

Better data and analytics capabilities for planning and mitigation

Develop an information clearinghouse (could that be expanded to the RISP?)

Develop information sharing SOPs (with FEMA's assistance)

Develop a better way to crowdsource building safety assessors

Develop notification triggers for EEIs (i.e. when to start monitoring them?)

Update PIO toolkit

Ensure an all hazards approach be considered/brought in for the planners & operators in CUSEC

Situational Awareness/Information Sharing

“We need better shared situational awareness so we can see what’s happening and what’s coming so we can plan for it.”

“We need a better way to identify task specific resources that are available. I have no ability to see what resources are available to me not only regionally but within 500 miles of the event.”

“We really need a way to look at crisis management data across the region – especially for resource requests and tracking.”

“We need the ability to roll up data from multiple boards rather than having to go from board to board.”

“Coordination is critical. Given resource limitations we need tools to help.”

Analytics

“There is so much data out there – we need a better ability to make sense of the data.”

“For planning purposes it is crucial that we understand the cascading impact of various events.”

“We need a better understanding of the interdependencies of infrastructures/lifelines –what are the key failure points and critical nodes that cause a lifeline breakdown.”

“We need a decision support toolkit to help us plan and make better decisions”

“We don’t have the tools we need to know how to best invest mitigation dollars. A make the smartest mitigation decisions. A town in Texas is still trying to figure out what to do with a bridge that always floods out.”

A Focus on Technology

“The States have new responsibilities. The new constructs require new processes and new ways of doing business, but we have the same budgets and staff. We need technology to help.”

“We need to be “all-in” on focusing on technology to help us. It’s telling that the first executive order from California’s new Governor focused on technology to help emergency management.”

TechnologySolutions

Information, Communications, and Coordination (IC2)

• Information access and sharing

• Situational Awareness

• Resource Tracking

Analysis and Decision Support

• “Predictive” analytical tools

• Toolkits for better decision-making

ArcGIS

Online

CHAMPS

Damage /Building Safety

Assessment Apps

EMAC

Mutual Aid

Resource Planning

Tool

Web Maps + App Templates + Dashboards

Data Store + Hosted Feature Services

INFORMATION

PORTAL

Response/RecoveryMitigation

WebEOC

PlanningOperations

INTEGRATED CAPABILITY

CUSEC Community united through a System of Systems

Alabama

Arkansas

Illinois

Kentucky

Mississippi

Missouri

Tennessee

*Indiana

FEMA Regions

Coordinated application and data service

sharing along with data model templates

CUSEC Regional

Information Sharing Portal

FEMA

Next Steps

Identify/Prioritize Regional Operational

Policy/Technology Needs

Identify/Vet Policy/Technology

Solutions

Identify Mechanisms for Implementation at the State Level

Information, Communication, and Coordination

Analysis and Decision Support

Technology Roadmap Working Group

Request for Assistance

Volunteer committee to oversee development of the Technology Roadmap comprised of:

• ALL States represented

• Partner Agencies are represented

• Mix of operational and Tech background